Audio has reached the point at which most people can't hear the superior quality.
Dude, I am half deaf and *I* can hear the difference between 192 and 256 bitrate mp3s. With many different songs, I can hear the difference between 256, 320, and FLAC... and even FLAC can not convince me that it is live. The cymbals give it all away. I can hear the compression patterns in the cymbals and again in the vocals.
Of course, there are no "compression patterns" in FLAC or on CDs, but the cymbals are a dead giveaway that it is a recording... and this from a person who is half deaf.
You do realize that open areas are... open areas, right? Drive through the countryside in Illinois sometimes. You won't see shit but it still exists. Is it not "fleshed out"? The purpose of the countryside in San Andreas is to provide countryside.
Besides, much of that countryside "crap" is used for content later on in the game. If you had bothered to do something other than the main storyline, you would have noticed this. Try doing the triathlon or some of the off road races.
For myself, I am glad that GTA:SA was so huge. It gave a deeper atmosphere and provided more places to play.
Holy shit dude! You are raking in the karma from posting this internet whack a mole piece within several different articles within the past 24 hours. Did you write it yourself or did you plagiarize it?
Nobody was arguing that choice is not good. They were arguing that raising the price significantly to offer the other choice (MS Windows in this case) was not good since the value of the laptop is in its incredibly low price. By adding choice (price), the laptop was effectively being taken away from the majority of people it was supposed to be for. Understand?
Yeah, I read this one that had witchcraft, rape, incest, slavery, prostitution, murder, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing, baby killing, and strange religious cults. It was called the Bible.
So how did they manage to make it so boring with such a rich array of topics?:)
"So, no country has no hungry people. No country has no homeless people. It's impossible to "solve" the problem 100% before doing anything else."
This issue does not have to be so black and white. When a significantly large portion of your population is starving, you invest in infrastructure that will help alleviate the issue such as buying tractors or building physical roads. It is true that in America, we have starving people. That should not stop us from investing in Scientific research and such because most anyone who wants to get food, can, even if it means stealing it. In India, the situation is entirely different. There are people there who could not get food even by stealing it.
In summary, the building of infrastructure should reflect long term needs but short term needs should be accounted for if they will preclude the long term needs. What good is broadband to millions of dead people?
There really is not any need for Linux only geeks out here. I have had to deal with a few Linux based systems in my capacity as a network administrator. As a matter of fact, my extensive Linux knowledge has saved the day on more than one occasion, but, Linux is not the main focus of anyone out here. Do you have other marketable skills in addition to your Linux knowledge?
Victory North is now called Liberty. You are right next to me. I am not aware of a need for DB guys but that does not mean that none are needed. I will check.
Hm, how can we contact without exchanging email addresses on this forum? You could PRIVMSG your email address to megaton (that is me) in #c or #code-poets on EFNET irc. Include your current username in the message so that I can find your message efficiently. I am going to eat soon so I will likely not respond for a couple of hours. If you have a different preferred method for communication, let me know.
I was stationed on Camp Liberty, which is a huge base in its own right. We were some hours away from Anaconda (I think 12? I don't remember rightly anymore).
Greetings. I am at Camp Victory (Liberty/Victory/Slayer/Stryker/etc are all part of the BIAP complex). Anaconda/Balad is only 15 minutes away by plane and maybe 30/45 minutes by helo. I am not sure how far it is on the roads but 12 hours is probably excessive unless you are doing IED sweeping.
One of my questions would be. Who out there is still hiring, what are the wages like, and who here on slashdot would be willing to sign up?
I am already out here in Iraq. There are many companies out here looking for skilled professionals who can get and maintain a security clearance. Raytheon, ITT, and General Dynamics are some of the bigger ones although there are numerous other companies, Anteon, INX, etc still hiring. Gone are the days of $300k+ year contracts, but pay is still significantly higher than in the States for similar work. Be prepared for spartan living environments and the occasional mortar/rocket attack. The food is reasonable, even slightly better than the average restaraunt back in the States.
Do not work for Halliburton/KBR. They have better living conditions but the pay is significantly lower.
I am leaving in a month (2+ years already). I work at Camp Victory in Baghdad. If you have any more questions, post them below. If you are an expert with networks, I can get you hired on for better than average pay.
People have this amazing realization when they see their computer running 1 month straight with Linux and Mac: Windows was a piece of crap, and it is not normal to have to reboot more than a 1-2 times a year. By that point, they are ready to blame everything on Windows, not the PC manufacturer.
Actually, that is not true of Macs any more. My 1.6ghz PPC Powerbook gets rebooted about once every three months. My 2ghz Core Duo Macbook Pro gets rebooted almost every day (odd video artifacts, non-responsive processes, etc). Both run Tiger (10.4). I am not sure what the deal is but but the only (mostly) reliable operating system I have seen run on x86 processors is Linux. Even Linux on x86 is not as reliable as OS X on PPC though. Is there something weird going on with x86 chips? I have seen no difference between Intel and AMD if that makes any difference?
If the SSID is not at its default setting but the AP is still open, it is reasonable to assume that the AP is intended to be used. You are correct that a default SSID would not indicate intent to allow public use.
If encryption is turned on or if the SSID is not being broadcast, it is clear that the owner intends to not let any random person use his/her wifi. If the SSID is clearly advertised, encryption is off, and there are no MAC filters, then there is no reason to assume that the owner does not intend you to use his/her wifi.
It all boils down to intent: No matter how weak the "lock" is, you are not allowed.
Let's throw another example out here for you:
You notice an AP. SSID is clearly broadcast, no MAC filters, and no encryption... but, the SSID is "NOTPUBLIC".
Is it appropriate for you to use the AP? I submit that it is NOT ok since the owner is declaring, via the SSID, that the wifi is not for public use.
Yes... I said complete strangers. We don't say please and thank you anymore. We don't hold doors for each other. We cut each other off in traffic and give each other the bird. We lie and cheat to get ahead at the work place. We gossip and ruin people's lives. We cut in line in grocery store and we try to rip off our waiter at the restaurant. We focus our lives our possessions and money and we don't give a damn to a man on the street or a kid who has had his world shattered. We say they are "crazy". We say they are "evil" and that it isn't our fault.
But it is our fault. Every single one of us have forgotten about all the other humans out there and we always trump "personal responsibility" on others without even thinking that we haven't even bothered ourselves.
I think you are getting a bit carried away there buddy. Not every single one of us has lost our manners or compassion/caring for others (even strangers). I have been to the Philippines and Kuwait recently and both places were full of people who were polite, kind, and friendly. While there does seem to be some sort of epidemic in America about lack of general kindness, there are still a very large number of Americans who are very friendly, generous, and kind. I would even go so far as to say that the kindest and most generous people I have met throughout the world have been my fellow Americans, even if the average is somewhat lower than everywhere else in the world (South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Bahrain, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Philippines, Kuwait, Qatar).
Be kind to someone today and enhance everyone's view of the average person.
I think you are approaching this from the wrong perspective:
When some moron goes apeshit with a gun, I would like the ability to be able to defend myself. I really could give a flying fuck if you are "afraid" that *I* might be the one going apeshit.
I am 39 years old and have never carried a weapon off-duty (I occasionaly work as a security guard), however, I want to retain the ability to do so. I am currently surrounded by people who carry assault rifles openly at all times. As a matter of fact, they are _required_ to carry them everywhere they go, even when they eat or go shopping at the store. While there have been a few accidental discharges, I feel very safe.
Tell me, wouldn't you want the ability to defend yourself. Do you feel so strongly about not being able to defend yourself that you are willing to give up your life to prove it? Would your opinion change if you were one of the students being shot at?
There's something about American culture that makes people think a gun is a solution instead of an accident waiting to happen, and we're seeing this attitude bleed over into other countries...
It is not realistic to expect every gun in the world to disappear. At a minimum, police and armies will have them. This means that guns will _always_ be available to those who will not obey the law.
Now, let's consider what could have happened had even one of the victims had a gun in their possession: They might have been able to prevent all of the other deaths.
An unarmed populace is not the solution, it is the problem.
Inconsequential. Dual booting is *so* 2005. Nobody even turns off their macs anymore, much less boots into a different OS. Actually, that is not true now that OS X is running on Intel processors. I put my Macbook Pro to sleep the other day, removed the USB drive that was attached, brought the computer home, woke it back up and everything was fucked. I could not type in any windows (Firefox or iTerm), could not close any open windows, and when I finally tried shutting it down, it hung until I powered it off 15 minutes later.
With my Powerbook, I have never experienced anything that drastic even if there were a few quirks when waking up sometimes (usually filesystem images not unmounting correctly).
It does not look like it will be for sale this month. As a matter of fact, I can find no hard dates at all; although they do talk about January an awful lot. It is January right now. It looks like a very interesting phone though.
"But people aren't willing to wait or pay for engineered software. Windows already costs $199, and a real OS that followed engineering principles wouldn't cost $199. It would cost probably around $10,000 per copy, if it were being sold on every desktop."
Horseshit. Microsoft has made billions of dollars off of software without charging $10,000 per copy. No, they have made more than a trillion dollars off of software. I guaran-fucking-tee you that I could build a well engineered OS that is more featureful than ms windows for less than a trillion dollars. I am sure I could do it for less than a billion even.
The problem is that these countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, etc) all censor the net to some extent or another and therefore, their entire population appears to use one IP address. If I do not have a cookie already set, I can not log in to Slashdot from several different countries.
Since at least one person in any given population is going to be a real jerk, most of these countries are going to find themselves as second class net participants. The only way to avoid this is for each site to accept only individual sign-up accounts and prohibit anonymous posting.
Slashdot Mirror
Audio has reached the point at which most people can't hear the superior quality.
Dude, I am half deaf and *I* can hear the difference between 192 and 256 bitrate mp3s. With many different songs, I can hear the difference between 256, 320, and FLAC... and even FLAC can not convince me that it is live. The cymbals give it all away. I can hear the compression patterns in the cymbals and again in the vocals.
Of course, there are no "compression patterns" in FLAC or on CDs, but the cymbals are a dead giveaway that it is a recording... and this from a person who is half deaf.
strike
You do realize that open areas are... open areas, right? Drive through the countryside in Illinois sometimes. You won't see shit but it still exists. Is it not "fleshed out"? The purpose of the countryside in San Andreas is to provide countryside.
Besides, much of that countryside "crap" is used for content later on in the game. If you had bothered to do something other than the main storyline, you would have noticed this. Try doing the triathlon or some of the off road races.
For myself, I am glad that GTA:SA was so huge. It gave a deeper atmosphere and provided more places to play.
strike
Sheep, Sheepdog, or Wolf: Choose.
Sheepdog FYI.
strike
Holy shit dude! You are raking in the karma from posting this internet whack a mole piece within several different articles within the past 24 hours. Did you write it yourself or did you plagiarize it?
strike
Nobody was arguing that choice is not good. They were arguing that raising the price significantly to offer the other choice (MS Windows in this case) was not good since the value of the laptop is in its incredibly low price. By adding choice (price), the laptop was effectively being taken away from the majority of people it was supposed to be for. Understand?
strike
Yeah, I read this one that had witchcraft, rape, incest, slavery, prostitution, murder, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing, baby killing, and strange religious cults.
:)
It was called the Bible.
So how did they manage to make it so boring with such a rich array of topics?
strike
"So, no country has no hungry people. No country has no homeless people. It's impossible to "solve" the problem 100% before doing anything else."
This issue does not have to be so black and white. When a significantly large portion of your population is starving, you invest in infrastructure that will help alleviate the issue such as buying tractors or building physical roads. It is true that in America, we have starving people. That should not stop us from investing in Scientific research and such because most anyone who wants to get food, can, even if it means stealing it. In India, the situation is entirely different. There are people there who could not get food even by stealing it.
In summary, the building of infrastructure should reflect long term needs but short term needs should be accounted for if they will preclude the long term needs. What good is broadband to millions of dead people?
strike
There really is not any need for Linux only geeks out here. I have had to deal with a few Linux based systems in my capacity as a network administrator. As a matter of fact, my extensive Linux knowledge has saved the day on more than one occasion, but, Linux is not the main focus of anyone out here. Do you have other marketable skills in addition to your Linux knowledge?
strike
Doh! Your email was staring me in the face. Sorry. I have sent an email to you. I had not eaten all day and was not being particularly astute.
strike
Victory North is now called Liberty. You are right next to me. I am not aware of a need for DB guys but that does not mean that none are needed. I will check.
strike
Hm, how can we contact without exchanging email addresses on this forum? You could PRIVMSG your email address to megaton (that is me) in #c or #code-poets on EFNET irc. Include your current username in the message so that I can find your message efficiently. I am going to eat soon so I will likely not respond for a couple of hours. If you have a different preferred method for communication, let me know.
strike
I was stationed on Camp Liberty, which is a huge base in its own right. We were some hours away from Anaconda (I think 12? I don't remember rightly anymore).
Greetings. I am at Camp Victory (Liberty/Victory/Slayer/Stryker/etc are all part of the BIAP complex). Anaconda/Balad is only 15 minutes away by plane and maybe 30/45 minutes by helo. I am not sure how far it is on the roads but 12 hours is probably excessive unless you are doing IED sweeping.
strike
One of my questions would be. Who out there is still hiring, what are the wages like, and who here on slashdot would be willing to sign up?
I am already out here in Iraq. There are many companies out here looking for skilled professionals who can get and maintain a security clearance. Raytheon, ITT, and General Dynamics are some of the bigger ones although there are numerous other companies, Anteon, INX, etc still hiring. Gone are the days of $300k+ year contracts, but pay is still significantly higher than in the States for similar work. Be prepared for spartan living environments and the occasional mortar/rocket attack. The food is reasonable, even slightly better than the average restaraunt back in the States.
Do not work for Halliburton/KBR. They have better living conditions but the pay is significantly lower.
I am leaving in a month (2+ years already). I work at Camp Victory in Baghdad. If you have any more questions, post them below. If you are an expert with networks, I can get you hired on for better than average pay.
strike
People have this amazing realization when they see their computer running 1 month straight with Linux and Mac: Windows was a piece of crap, and it is not normal to have to reboot more than a 1-2 times a year. By that point, they are ready to blame everything on Windows, not the PC manufacturer.
Actually, that is not true of Macs any more. My 1.6ghz PPC Powerbook gets rebooted about once every three months. My 2ghz Core Duo Macbook Pro gets rebooted almost every day (odd video artifacts, non-responsive processes, etc). Both run Tiger (10.4). I am not sure what the deal is but but the only (mostly) reliable operating system I have seen run on x86 processors is Linux. Even Linux on x86 is not as reliable as OS X on PPC though. Is there something weird going on with x86 chips? I have seen no difference between Intel and AMD if that makes any difference?
strike
If the SSID is not at its default setting but the AP is still open, it is reasonable to assume that the AP is intended to be used. You are correct that a default SSID would not indicate intent to allow public use.
strike
The answer is incredibly obvious:
If encryption is turned on or if the SSID is not being broadcast, it is clear that the owner intends to not let any random person use his/her wifi. If the SSID is clearly advertised, encryption is off, and there are no MAC filters, then there is no reason to assume that the owner does not intend you to use his/her wifi.
It all boils down to intent: No matter how weak the "lock" is, you are not allowed.
Let's throw another example out here for you:
You notice an AP. SSID is clearly broadcast, no MAC filters, and no encryption... but, the SSID is "NOTPUBLIC".
Is it appropriate for you to use the AP? I submit that it is NOT ok since the owner is declaring, via the SSID, that the wifi is not for public use.
strike (who runs an open AP)
Yes... I said complete strangers. We don't say please and thank you anymore. We don't hold doors for each other. We cut each other off in traffic and give each other the bird. We lie and cheat to get ahead at the work place. We gossip and ruin people's lives. We cut in line in grocery store and we try to rip off our waiter at the restaurant. We focus our lives our possessions and money and we don't give a damn to a man on the street or a kid who has had his world shattered. We say they are "crazy". We say they are "evil" and that it isn't our fault.
But it is our fault. Every single one of us have forgotten about all the other humans out there and we always trump "personal responsibility" on others without even thinking that we haven't even bothered ourselves.
I think you are getting a bit carried away there buddy. Not every single one of us has lost our manners or compassion/caring for others (even strangers). I have been to the Philippines and Kuwait recently and both places were full of people who were polite, kind, and friendly. While there does seem to be some sort of epidemic in America about lack of general kindness, there are still a very large number of Americans who are very friendly, generous, and kind. I would even go so far as to say that the kindest and most generous people I have met throughout the world have been my fellow Americans, even if the average is somewhat lower than everywhere else in the world (South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Bahrain, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Philippines, Kuwait, Qatar).
Be kind to someone today and enhance everyone's view of the average person.
I think you are approaching this from the wrong perspective:
When some moron goes apeshit with a gun, I would like the ability to be able to defend myself. I really could give a flying fuck if you are "afraid" that *I* might be the one going apeshit.
I am 39 years old and have never carried a weapon off-duty (I occasionaly work as a security guard), however, I want to retain the ability to do so. I am currently surrounded by people who carry assault rifles openly at all times. As a matter of fact, they are _required_ to carry them everywhere they go, even when they eat or go shopping at the store. While there have been a few accidental discharges, I feel very safe.
Tell me, wouldn't you want the ability to defend yourself. Do you feel so strongly about not being able to defend yourself that you are willing to give up your life to prove it? Would your opinion change if you were one of the students being shot at?
strike
There's something about American culture that makes people think a gun is a solution instead of an accident waiting to happen, and we're seeing this attitude bleed over into other countries ...
It is not realistic to expect every gun in the world to disappear. At a minimum, police and armies will have them. This means that guns will _always_ be available to those who will not obey the law.
Now, let's consider what could have happened had even one of the victims had a gun in their possession: They might have been able to prevent all of the other deaths.
An unarmed populace is not the solution, it is the problem.
strike
"Secondly, why is there a web history in the open/save dialog at all? Can anyone think of a remotely plausable use case where this would be helpful?"
:P )that is basically a website for document sharing.
Sharepoint integration. Sharepoint is a Microsoft thingy ( don't want to get too technical
strike
Nobody even turns off their macs anymore, much less boots into a different OS. Actually, that is not true now that OS X is running on Intel processors. I put my Macbook Pro to sleep the other day, removed the USB drive that was attached, brought the computer home, woke it back up and everything was fucked. I could not type in any windows (Firefox or iTerm), could not close any open windows, and when I finally tried shutting it down, it hung until I powered it off 15 minutes later.
With my Powerbook, I have never experienced anything that drastic even if there were a few quirks when waking up sometimes (usually filesystem images not unmounting correctly).
strike
Are you kidding? Those are easy to find! Try getting two primes separated by the integer three... How about 2 and 5?
strike
It does not look like it will be for sale this month. As a matter of fact, I can find no hard dates at all; although they do talk about January an awful lot. It is January right now. It looks like a very interesting phone though.
strike
"But people aren't willing to wait or pay for engineered software. Windows already costs $199, and a real OS that followed engineering principles wouldn't cost $199. It would cost probably around $10,000 per copy, if it were being sold on every desktop."
Horseshit. Microsoft has made billions of dollars off of software without charging $10,000 per copy. No, they have made more than a trillion dollars off of software. I guaran-fucking-tee you that I could build a well engineered OS that is more featureful than ms windows for less than a trillion dollars. I am sure I could do it for less than a billion even.
Wake up and smell the greed.
strike
The problem is that these countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, etc) all censor the net to some extent or another and therefore, their entire population appears to use one IP address. If I do not have a cookie already set, I can not log in to Slashdot from several different countries.
Since at least one person in any given population is going to be a real jerk, most of these countries are going to find themselves as second class net participants. The only way to avoid this is for each site to accept only individual sign-up accounts and prohibit anonymous posting.
strike